Treatment Court Facts December 2019

TREATMENTCOURTS COORDINATING COMMISSION

Treatment Court Fact Sheet

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Honorable George W. Draper, Chair Judge

Honorable Marco Roldan, Presiding Judge

Mark Stringer, Director

Vacant,

Julie Fogelberg

Supreme Court of Missouri

16th Judicial Circuit

Department of Mental Elealth

Department of Social Services

Prosecuting Attorney Representative

Honorable Lawrence Mooney, Judge

Kevin Austin,

Anne Precythe, Director

Sandra Karsten

S. Dean Price

Missouri Court ofAppeals-Eastern District

Treatment Court Commissioner

31st Judicial Circuit

Department of Corrections

Director, Department of Public Safety

Criminal Defense Bar Representative

WhyTreatment Courts?

Proven cost-effective
method of diverting
offenders from
incarceration in prisons

Lower the recidivism
rate of offenders
when compared with
either incarceration
or probation

Allow offenders
to remain in the
community, to work,
pay taxes, support
families

Help ensure child
support payments
are made

drugs/alcohol, saving
the state millions of
dollars in lifetime costs

Reduce the number Reduce crime and the
of babies born need for foster care

prenatally exposed to

MISSOURI TREATMENT COURT HISTORY

1993#

Jackson County

The first treatment court
started in 1993 in Jackson
County

First Legislation

The first legislation for
Missouri treatment court
passed in 1998

#1998

Veterans

Treatment Courts

- •

Legislation was passed in
2013 to establish veterans
treatment courts

DWI Court

Legislation was passed in
2010 to establish DWI court
dockets which allowed for
limited driving privileges to
be issued to participants and
graduates of a DWI court in
Missouri

Treatment Court
Standards

2018 # -

Legislation was passed in

■ 2018 to further define all

treatment court models
and provide for the
development of treatment
court standards

2010#

2013

Treatment Court Coordinating Commission | P.O.

MISSOURI

TREATMENT

COURT

PROGRAMS

As of Decennber 2019, 45 judicial circuits had the following treatment
court programs:

Juvenile

Treatment

Courts

Serving 5
counties

DWI

Courts

Serving 29
counties

Adult

Treatment

Courts

Serving 101
counties

Veterans

Treatment

Courts

Serving 40
counties

Family

Treatment

Courts

Serving 20
counties

SAVE

LIVES

+4,800

current active
participants

+22,000

treatment court
graduates

952

drug-free babies
born to treatment
court participants

ADDRESS

ISSUES

In 2017, 951 Missourians
lost their lives to an opioid
overdose (includes heroin
and prescription opioids).
Source: Department of
Health and Senior Services

As of December 31, 2016,
there were 32,461 offenders
in Missouri state prisons.

Of these, 7,422 had drug or
DWI convictions. Source:
Missouri DOC Annual Report

2016

3,451

From April 201 8 through March 201 9, caretaker drug or alcohol use was cited as a factor for 3,451 children
removed to foster care in Missouri. Source: Fostering Court Improvement

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Revised December 2019